2003 Kane County Cougars Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 80-59
Finished 1st in the MWL's West Division
Manager: Webster Garrison (80-59)
Affiliation: Oakland Athletics
Location: Geneva, Illinois
Ballpark: Phillip Elfstrom Stadium
Attendance: 516,133, Avg. 7,941 in 65 home dates

2003 Kane County Cougars Roster

Playoffs - Clinton LumberKings 2 games, Kane County Cougars 1

The Kane County Cougars of the Midwest League ended the 2003 season with a record of 80 wins and 59 losses, finishing first in the league's West Division.

The Cougars gave up 519 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Kane County plated 636 runs. Nelson Cruz paced the squad with 20 home runs, while Brant Colamarino walloped 15 or more also. Nelson Cruz drove in 85 runs. John McCurdy led all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .274 clip. Drew Dickinson topped the squad with 11 wins, and Joe Blanton recorded a 2.57 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Marcus McBeth, Joe Blanton, Bill Murphy, Andre Ethier, Santiago Casilla, John Baker, Nelson Cruz, Shane Komine and Jared Burton were all players from the 2003 Kane County Cougars who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Webster Garrison served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Drew Dickinson	11	11	.500	3.15	28	28	0	5	3	0	191.3	168	75	67	4	42	1	114	1	1	4	766
Joe Blanton	8	7	.533	2.57	21	21	0	2	2	0	133.0	110	47	38	6	19	0	144	5	0	1	531
Bill Murphy	7	4	.636	2.25	14	14	0	1	1	0	92.0	61	27	23	5	32	0	87	2	3	1	363
Cristian Gonzalez	7	8	.467	4.47	19	14	3	3	1	0	92.7	99	51	46	5	26	0	52	7	0	7	403
Shane Komine	6	0	1.000	1.82	8	8	0	1	1	0	54.3	45	12	11	1	9	0	50	2	1	0	216
Shawn Kohn	6	4	.600	2.54	45	4	16	0	0	2	88.7	71	27	25	5	15	2	69	6	3	1	352
Chris Shank	5	0	1.000	2.86	12	0	4	0	0	0	22.0	15	7	7	1	2	0	15	2	0	0	82
Chris Dunwell	4	0	1.000	3.21	30	0	12	0	0	2	53.3	44	23	19	2	21	0	53	3	0	5	228
Chris Mowday	4	3	.571	6.49	21	8	2	0	0	0	51.3	60	45	37	3	42	0	48	6	0	4	258
Matt Lynch	4	4	.500	4.53	13	11	0	0	0	0	59.7	84	33	30	1	11	0	43	2	0	3	267
Derell McCall	3	1	.750	2.66	8	7	1	1	0	1	47.3	47	18	14	3	7	0	24	1	0	1	197
Manuel Rodriguez	3	3	.500	7.42	33	0	15	0	0	0	43.7	56	41	36	3	20	2	22	5	0	8	214
Eduardo Sierra	3	5	.375	2.09	51	0	34	0	0	17	60.3	46	23	14	2	24	4	52	8	0	11	264
Steve Obenchain	3	5	.375	2.57	11	8	1	0	0	0	49.0	48	16	14	3	13	0	30	0	0	2	203
Jared Burton	2	1	.667	2.27	15	2	3	0	0	1	31.7	19	9	8	2	7	0	33	2	0	4	120
Brigmer Leon	2	1	.667	3.82	30	5	12	0	0	2	63.7	71	31	27	1	20	0	44	5	1	6	279
Leonard Landeros	1	0	1.000	1.48	15	0	6	0	0	0	24.3	25	7	4	0	4	0	12	3	0	1	103
Brad Sullivan	1	0	1.000	3.18	6	0	0	0	0	0	11.3	9	4	4	1	7	1	9	0	0	2	50
Santiago Casilla	0	1	.000	2.55	14	9	1	0	0	0	42.3	40	14	12	0	19	0	28	3	0	5	183
Jeff Muessig	0	1	.000	2.60	22	0	16	0	0	10	27.7	26	9	8	1	8	0	37	1	0	1	117
Totals	80	59	.576	3.22	416	139	126	13	8	35	1239.7	1144	519	444	49	348	10	966	64	9	67	5196

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
John McCurdy	130	575	515	64	141	33	1	4	52	22	5	34	86	.274	.331	.365	.696	188	14	13	7	6	0
Brant Colamarino	133	576	498	68	129	26	0	19	80	1	0	59	101	.259	.350	.426	.775	212	2	13	1	5	4
Francis Gomez	128	547	483	65	128	18	3	5	53	21	9	29	74	.265	.323	.346	.669	167	13	15	15	5	0
Nelson Cruz	119	515	470	65	112	26	2	20	85	10	5	29	128	.238	.292	.430	.722	202	7	9	1	6	2
John Baker	82	365	304	42	94	23	2	6	49	1	0	47	77	.309	.414	.457	.871	139	4	10	0	4	2
Brian Stavisky	98	407	331	54	88	20	2	6	35	4	1	62	74	.266	.396	.393	.788	130	5	9	5	0	0
Jason Basil	105	401	343	37	83	13	1	3	36	4	1	50	64	.242	.343	.312	.655	107	8	4	2	2	1
Kory Wayment	115	375	316	55	78	6	0	5	30	16	7	47	92	.247	.350	.313	.663	99	3	4	6	2	1
Nick Rogers	89	347	307	42	74	12	1	5	34	15	12	34	82	.241	.318	.336	.653	103	6	2	1	3	0
John Suomi	69	263	241	29	62	19	1	1	28	4	2	14	34	.257	.298	.357	.655	86	1	2	1	5	1
Marcus McBeth	68	272	234	30	60	9	3	4	26	8	4	28	57	.256	.349	.372	.721	87	3	6	3	1	0
Andre Ethier	40	183	162	23	44	10	0	0	11	2	2	19	25	.272	.355	.333	.689	54	4	2	0	0	2
Kirk Nordness	38	145	129	17	28	6	0	0	15	1	1	12	25	.217	.285	.264	.548	34	3	1	1	2	0
Chris Tritle	42	141	132	11	23	2	1	1	10	6	2	6	48	.174	.209	.227	.436	30	4	0	2	1	0
J. P. Schmidt	44	158	137	21	21	5	0	0	11	8	0	17	32	.153	.250	.190	.440	26	4	1	2	1	0
Beau Craig	25	93	76	9	16	2	0	2	11	0	0	16	21	.211	.348	.316	.664	24	3	0	1	0	0
Lloyd Turner	4	12	12	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
Dustin Majewski	4	19	18	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	9	.167	.211	.222	.433	4	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1333	5394	4708	636	1188	231	17	81	569	123	51	504	1029	.252	.334	.360	.694	1696	84	91	48	43	13

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Brant Colamarino	1B	133	1184	66	11	74	.991	9.398
Jason Basil	1B	11	73	6	0	3	1.000	7.182
John Suomi	1B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Francis Gomez	2B	118	237	354	14	44	.977	5.008
Kory Wayment	2B	25	49	61	4	9	.965	4.400
J. P. Schmidt	2B	3	3	5	1	0	.889	2.667
Lloyd Turner	2B	2	3	3	1	1	.857	3.000
Kory Wayment	3B	90	45	144	13	6	.936	2.100
Jason Basil	3B	73	46	99	17	4	.895	1.986
J. P. Schmidt	3B	5	2	5	1	0	.875	1.400
Lloyd Turner	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
John Baker	C	60	417	30	7	2	.985	7.450	4	50	15	23.1
John Suomi	C	55	354	34	7	1	.982	7.055	8	57	11	16.2
Beau Craig	C	18	117	12	2	1	.985	7.167	1	30	5	14.3
Jason Basil	C	12	78	15	0	0	1.000	7.750	3	16	6	27.3
Nick Rogers	C	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0	0	0
Marcus McBeth	CF	63						.000
Andre Ethier	CF	36						.000
J. P. Schmidt	CF	23						.000
Nelson Cruz	CF	17						.000
Nick Rogers	CF	5						.000
Chris Tritle	CF	4						.000
Nick Rogers	LF	54						.000
Kirk Nordness	LF	32						.000
Chris Tritle	LF	23						.000
Brian Stavisky	LF	16						.000
J. P. Schmidt	LF	7						.000
Jason Basil	LF	5						.000
Dustin Majewski	LF	4						.000
Andre Ethier	LF	4						.000
Marcus McBeth	LF	3						.000
Nelson Cruz	OF	119	271	8	6	1	.979	2.345
Nick Rogers	OF	77	128	2	3	0	.977	1.688
Marcus McBeth	OF	67	141	2	2	2	.986	2.134
Andre Ethier	OF	40	109	0	3	0	.973	2.725
Chris Tritle	OF	36	70	1	3	0	.959	1.972
J. P. Schmidt	OF	33	55	1	3	0	.949	1.697
Kirk Nordness	OF	33	46	2	2	0	.960	1.455
Brian Stavisky	OF	16	22	1	1	0	.958	1.438
Jason Basil	OF	8	13	1	1	1	.933	1.750
Dustin Majewski	OF	4	7	0	1	0	.875	1.750
Eduardo Sierra	P	51	4	6	1	1	.909	.196
Shawn Kohn	P	45	2	16	1	1	.947	.400
Manuel Rodriguez	P	33	0	6	0	0	1.000	.182
Brigmer Leon	P	30	4	5	2	1	.818	.300
Chris Dunwell	P	30	2	10	1	0	.923	.400
Drew Dickinson	P	28	12	55	1	3	.985	2.393
Jeff Muessig	P	22	1	2	0	0	1.000	.136
Chris Mowday	P	21	3	9	1	0	.923	.571
Joe Blanton	P	21	4	15	2	0	.905	.905
Cristian Gonzalez	P	19	7	16	0	1	1.000	1.211
Leonard Landeros	P	15	1	6	0	2	1.000	.467
Jared Burton	P	15	2	3	0	1	1.000	.333
Bill Murphy	P	14	2	18	1	0	.952	1.429
Santiago Casilla	P	14	0	6	0	0	1.000	.429
Matt Lynch	P	13	1	11	0	0	1.000	.923
Chris Shank	P	12	0	1	1	0	.500	.083
Steve Obenchain	P	11	1	8	0	0	1.000	.818
Derell McCall	P	8	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.250
Shane Komine	P	8	2	10	0	0	1.000	1.500
Brad Sullivan	P	6	1	4	0	0	1.000	.833
Nelson Cruz	RF	106						.000
Nick Rogers	RF	21						.000
Chris Tritle	RF	11						.000
J. P. Schmidt	RF	4						.000
Jason Basil	RF	3						.000
Kirk Nordness	RF	2						.000
Marcus McBeth	RF	1						.000
John McCurdy	SS	130	182	371	29	59	.950	4.254
Francis Gomez	SS	9	12	20	2	4	.941	3.556
Totals		2040	3719	1456	145	222	.973	2.537	16	153	37	19.5

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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